{"id":261899,"date":"2019-03-01T05:52:07","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T05:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=261899"},"modified":"2019-03-01T05:52:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T05:52:07","slug":"5-5-crore-passenger-market-at-stake-udans-progress-and-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/5-5-crore-passenger-market-at-stake-udans-progress-and-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"5.5 crore-passenger market at stake: UDAN\u2019s progress and challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian aviation industry is staring at a huge market of 5.5 crore passengers which needs wings, figuratively, Air India Chairman Ashwani Lohani said on Thursday. The aviation industry has a massive growth potential if only adequate infrastructure in terms of airports etc is provided.<\/p>\n<p>The states should subsidise travelling and eliminate VAT as it will act as a catalyst, Lohani said at an event. \u201cTourism is on an upswing. Currently, just at the fringes, there is a long way to go for the industry,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>So what exactly is the obstacle in reaching the goals of UDAN?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian aviation industry is staring at a huge market of 5.5 crore passengers which needs wings, figuratively, Air India Chairman Ashwani Lohani said on Thursday. The aviation industry has a massive growth potential if only adequate infrastructure in terms of airports etc is provided. The states should subsidise travelling and eliminate VAT as it will act as a catalyst, Lohani said at an event. \u201cTourism is on an upswing. Currently, just at the fringes, there is a long way to go for the industry,\u201d he said. So what exactly is the obstacle in reaching the goals of UDAN?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}